Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Propulsion System for Next Generation Rotorcraft research project is one of 33 initiatives supported by the 2025 EDF work program.

An NTSB-led investigation is in full swing to identify factors that led to the collision between an American Eagle CRJ-700 and a U.S. Army helicopter.

France’s Dassault Aviation has rolled out the first Rafale combat aircraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), two years before deliveries get underway.

British services company Serco is buying Northrop Grumman’s mission training and satellite ground network communications software business, the company says.

The European Union (EU) is kicking off a new round of competitions for collaborative defense R&D efforts with €1.07 billion ($1.1 billion) in funding for the 2025 European Defense Fund (EDF) work program.

Virgin Galactic has partnered with space infrastructure company Redwire to build research payload lockers for its next-generation Delta-class spaceplane.

The UK Royal Navy has declared full operational capability with its Leonardo AW/EH101 Merlin Mk. 4 fleet of amphibious assault helicopters.

The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is calling for more money to go into its defense industrial program to bolster the bloc’s preparedness.

ESA has signed an $897 million contract with Thales Alenia Space for the manufacturer to deliver cargo to the lunar surface under ESA’s Argonaut Mission.

The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the aircraft, operating as American Airlines Flight 5342, was on approach to DCA's Runway 33.

Dassault’s emphasis on Rafale exports has borne fruit for the company in recent years, as has their focus on non-European markets.

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 is a medium airlifter that serves as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) primary cargo lifter along with the C-130. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.

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Manufacturers including Archer and Joby have pushed back against the report’s conclusions.

The flagship product of the collaboration is Site3D, a 3D point cloud map of the Earth’s surface.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $70 million Series A capital round.

The M-class has a payload capacity of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb.) and 8 kW of peak power, York announced Jan. 29.

Findings from a pair of extensive research efforts were published Jan. 29 by the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy.

The partners will use Vertix AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to analyze decades of solar activity data.

The European Space Agency says that as of Jan. 29 “the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on 22 December 2032 is 1.2%.”

Iran later tried to muddy the disclosure, deleting the reference to the Su-35.

The engine runs took place at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Draken Europe has been awarded a three-year, £173 million ($215.2 million) Interim Medium Speed Operational Readiness Training Services contract.

ADS Chief Executive Kevin Craven warned that without an appropriate plan, the UK aerospace sector’s growth potential would remain “untapped.”